Arcade vs looot (2026)

Arcade

by Arcade AI, Inc

looot

by AY Automate LLC

Pros

• ✓MCP-native runtime with Arcade-hosted MCP servers on every plan from Free upward. Developers get managed server infrastructure that works with any MCP client, including Claude Desktop, Copilot Studio, Cursor, and VS Code, instead of self-hosting.
• ✓Over 8,000 prebuilt tools across 44 integrations with built-in OAuth. An auth event is one-time per user per service, so after the first authorization all later tool calls run without re-authentication.
• ✓Governance is built in, with per-user and per-system logging plus SSO, RBAC, and audit logs. The Free tier gives 2,000 auth events and 2,000 tool calls per month with no credit card before the Team plan at $25 per month plus usage.

Limitations

• –Arcade's privacy policy states that user data is used to provide and improve its services, including training Arcade AI models, with no general opt-out, though Google Workspace data is carved out. Teams with strict data policies should compare it with Composio, which states it does not train on user data.
• –Arcade advertises SOC 2 compliance and shows an AICPA SOC badge, but does not state the report type publicly. Its Trust Center at trust.arcade.dev is access-gated, so security teams must request access to review compliance documentation, and no ISO 27001 is claimed.
• –No no-code interface: the platform requires SDK integration for every use case, so business teams cannot use Arcade without engineering involvement. No-code tools such as Zapier and Make.com ($9/mo billed annually) serve non-developers connecting the same class of SaaS tools.

Pros

• ✓Every endpoint shows its price before the call runs, and a call that fails at the provider is charged $0.
• ✓One key reaches more than 2,500 endpoints from more than 90 providers through an MCP server listed in the official MCP Registry, a CLI and a REST API.
• ✓Users can bring their own provider keys with no looot fee, and can connect their own Gmail and Google Workspace accounts so agents can act as well as read.

Limitations

• –There is no free plan or trial credit, so every paid call needs a funded balance, with a $5 minimum top-up.
• –The terms of service, privacy policy and data processing agreement are marked as drafts under legal review, and the vendor states it holds no SOC 2 or other third-party certification.
• –Each provider call passes its inputs to that third-party provider under the provider's own terms, and looot stores the inputs and outputs of every run.